Reborn Almighty Life

Defeating powerful rival Chelsea at home is undoubtedly a huge piece of good news for Manchester United. After all, the opponents Manchester United will face next are not very strong!

Of course, compared to Manchester United, which has strong troops and bright stars, any team in the Premier League can only be in a weak position.

On September 30, 2007, on the eve of the National Day of the Chinese Empire, Manchester United challenged Birmingham away. This was the eighth round of the Premier League this season. If Manchester United can win, the number of unbeaten games across the season will reach 46 games, one distance away from Assen.

Na's 49-game unbeaten streak only has the last three games left, which undoubtedly attracted great attention from the media and fans.

After all, every game of Manchester United is creating new history, and naturally everyone does not want to miss memorable moments.

In addition, the pleasing style of play and smooth coordination that Manchester United has shown in the past two seasons have made fans full of expectations for Manchester United's games.

According to some rumors, Cristiano Ronaldo will leave Manchester United in the summer of 2008 and embark on a journey to conquer the Bernabeu Stadium. Manchester United's current starry may be much dimmed by then.

At present, Manchester United has two talented stars in Ibrahimovic and Rooney on the front line. Although Hargreaves and Carrick in the defensive midfielder position are low-key, they are also world-class stars who can attack and defend well and have a good image. As for the left and right wings, they are more

Needless to say, Wong Lo Kat's age and toughness and Cristiano Ronaldo's brilliance make Manchester United's midfield and frontcourt star-studded.

It is such a lineup, known as the most luxurious attacking lineup in today's football. Once Ronaldo leaves, it will undoubtedly be a huge loss for the dream lineup. Even Gu Fei is still the world's number one superstar, but without

For a top three superstar, this has to be said to be a pity.

Therefore, when Ronaldo was still in the Manchester United team, many fans naturally cherished every game and were unwilling to miss the performance of Manchester United's seven superstars in the frontcourt.

For the host Birmingham, welcoming the strongest opponent in the Premier League also means that it can bring unparalleled attention and glory to the team. This feeling of pain and joy is probably shared by all players in the Premier League and even European football.

It’s a common experience for the team, right?

Birmingham is the second largest international city in the United Kingdom after London. Its population and area are second only to London. It is located in the center of England. On the railway line from London to Liverpool, transportation extends in all directions.

The Greater Birmingham area has the youngest population in Europe. It has been ranked as the best quality of life city in the UK by the Global Mercer Living Index for three consecutive years. It has world-class companies, R&D centers, world-renowned universities and innovative entrepreneurs. It is a city with more than

A vibrant and prosperous business area with 1,900 international companies, it is one of the UK's major manufacturing centers with a wide range of industrial sectors, mainly heavy industry.

Mainly industry-based, the world's largest metal processing area, including ferrous metallurgy, non-ferrous metallurgy (copper, zinc, brass, aluminum, nickel), machine tools, instruments, carriages, bicycles, aircraft, chemicals, military and other industries are also very important, automobiles

The industrial scale is so large that it is known as "British Detroit". Birmingham is the largest and most concentrated industrial area in the world. More than 25% of the UK's export products are manufactured in the Birmingham area.

Birmingham is the home of two Premier League professional football clubs (Aston Villa, Birmingham City) and has a strong football atmosphere.

Compared to its next-door neighbor Aston Villa, which has a brilliant record, Birmingham has an inconspicuous history. Just like this city, its popularity in the world is not comparable to that of London, Liverpool and Manchester.

Birmingham Football Club, founded in 1875, has a long history, but its career was unremarkable. The 1963 English League Cup became the only highlight in the team's history. Birmingham has been up and down in various levels of English leagues for many years.

, relying on the support of fans in the community, we have reached this point.

In the late 1950s and early 1960s, Birmingham became the first English team to play in Europe. They also played in the European Cities Fairs Cup finals for two consecutive years against two powerful European teams, Barcelona and Roma. Unfortunately, they lost both and finished second.

In the 1970s and 1980s, Birmingham City fluctuated between the First Division and the Second Division, being relegated and promoted several times.

From 1986 to 2002, Birmingham City entered a dark period in the club's history. In the 1985/86 season, they were relegated from the top flight, and two years later, they were relegated to English League Three for the first time in history.

After years of hardships, Birmingham City returned to the First Division in the 1991/92 season. However, in the 1993/94 season, they were squeezed out of the league by West Bromwich Albion in the same region due to their inferior goal difference and were relegated.

After arriving in League Two (already the third tier at the time), in the following years, Birmingham City returned to League One and tried to return to the Premier League, but failed to do so.

In the 2001/02 season, former Manchester United legendary defender Steve Bruce took over as Birmingham City coach. He led the team to achieve a breakthrough that season. They defeated Norwich City in the play-offs and reached the Champions League for the first time in 20 years.

England's top league.

In the first three years of promotion to the Premier League, Birmingham City ranked 13th, 10th, and 12th respectively. However, in the 2005/06 season, after purchasing many well-known players such as Fussell, Binner, and Pendiani, the team ranked 13th, 10th, and 12th.

It suffered a major landslide and was eventually relegated.

However, just one year after being relegated, in the 2006/07 season, Birmingham City achieved promotion in the English Championship. They won the second place in the league and fought back to the Premier League together with Sunderland who were relegated in the same year.

In the summer of 2007, Birmingham City ushered in a major event in the club's history. Hong Kong businessman Yang Jiacheng acquired 29.9% of the club's shares, becoming the largest shareholder and officially becoming the owner of the team. A new era for Birmingham City began.

Curtain.

In an era when China Capital has become an important part of English football, the addition of Hong Kong's wealthy businessmen has given the outside world and Birmingham fans greater expectations for the future of the team. The addition of powerful stars including Upson has also given rise to

The outside world has high hopes for this team.

In the first seven rounds of this season, Birmingham achieved a record of 2 wins, 2 draws and 3 losses, and was not able to completely escape the relegation circle. The team's offensive and defensive performance was not outstanding.

This time when they encountered the strong Manchester United, even if they were playing at home, the pro-Birmingham media had no hope for the home team and only asked that the team's game not be too ugly.

For the media, it is difficult for Birmingham to win. Instead of racking their brains to compete head-on with Manchester United, it is better to enjoy the joy of football!

Under this kind of publicity from the media, Birmingham's head coach and ordinary players did not share the same hatred and high-spiritedness when being interviewed by the media, and no one would verbally provoke Manchester United's superstar. After all, the strength gap between the two sides is real.

It's too big, and there's really no need to struggle pointlessly.

As for the team's head coach, he is thinking more about the team's relegation task. After all, it is ranked 17th. For Birmingham, it is too dangerous a position. If you are not careful, you may fall into the abyss of eternal destruction!

Therefore, when playing against a super giant like Manchester United, Birmingham did not think about winning at all. They just thought about how to lose the game decently without violating the rules, and finally end the game at the minimum cost and benefit the team.

The next road to relegation preserves strength.

If possible, Birmingham even hopes to send out a lineup mainly composed of substitutes, so that the main players can recharge their batteries for the next round of competition with Black, the direct competitor for relegation.

It is a pity that the officials of the Football Association and the Premier League are not blind and will not let Birmingham give up the game unscrupulously. Birmingham can only hide in secret and do nothing.

In addition, the arrival of Manchester United will bring a lot of revenue to Birmingham. Whether it is a packed stadium, a sought-after advertising space or a greatly increased TV broadcast sharing fee, Birmingham's eyes will be green!

Compared with Manchester United, a super-rich club with a prosperous life and an annual profit of more than 300 million pounds, Birmingham has a long history, but it has been a pauper from the day it was born. Especially after the Premier League entered the golden era, it became even more like an England international.

A down-and-out club that even the stars can’t afford.

Birmingham City's home stadium, St. Andrews Stadium, is located in the Small Heath area of ​​Birmingham, England, about 1.5 miles southeast of the city center. It is between factories, railways and residential buildings, with a capacity of just over 30,000 people.

Compared with the super capacity of Old Trafford Stadium of 88,000 people, St. Andrews Stadium looks particularly shabby, especially since it is curled up among various buildings, giving off a small family atmosphere.

In 1906, Birmingham City moved to St. Andrews from the old ground at Munds Street (Mu). The first game was held on December 26, and they beat Middlesbrough 0-0. The highest attendance at St. Andrews was set in 1939.

The FA Cup fifth round match against Everton had a total of 66,844 spectators.

However, most of the time, the audience at St. Andrews Stadium does not exceed 20,000 people. The weak strength allows this team to only attract loyal fans around the community and has no way to compete for more citizens of Birmingham.

Not to mention the fans in England and around the world.

St Andrews has long been rumored to be cursed by the Gypsies, which may have originated from the forced evictions of a group of Gypsies before the stadium was built. In the 1980s, head coach Ron Saunders tried to place crosses in flood waters.

lights and ordered players to paint the bottoms of their boots red to combat curses. Likewise, Barry Fry peed in the corners of the playing field in the hope of improving his team's fortunes.

However, these seemingly absurd moves did not help Birmingham rise, but instead made the team worse.

During the Second World War, the entire city of Birmingham was subjected to widespread air raids by the Nazis, and St. Andrews was temporarily closed. In 1941, a small fire broke out in the main stand of St. Andrews, but a fire brigade observer mistakenly threw a barrel of electric oil into the fire scene as water.

, the main stand was severely burned. In the 1950s and 1960s, the railway stand and the main stand were rebuilt. As the team's record declined, St. Andrews also became old.

Yang Jiacheng, who once went to Old Trafford to watch a game, almost shed tears when he looked at the extremely shabby chairman's box at his home stadium.

Compared to Manchester United, which can bring in huge revenue of more than five million pounds per home game, a sold-out Birmingham game can bring in revenue of at most one million pounds, and this is only the case for Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea.

It will only appear if a wealthy team comes to visit.

With an average price of over 50 pounds, Manchester United is the most expensive ticket in the Premier League and even the most expensive in the world. However, Birmingham dare not significantly increase the ticket price because it may lose a large number of spectators.

Generally speaking, for mid- and lower-tier teams in the Premier League like Birmingham, the average ticket price is around 20 pounds, and the most expensive ticket price does not exceed 300 pounds. That is, the average price is only for games against giants like Manchester United.

It may reach 30 pounds, and there will be a rush for tickets.

In comparison, the average price of Manchester United is more than 50 pounds, and some tickets with the best views cost more than 1,000 pounds. There is a huge difference between the two.

It is this huge gap that makes the gap between wealthy clubs and ordinary clubs continue to widen. Over decades or hundreds of years, this generation gap has reached an irreparable level.

Yang Jiacheng, who once went to Old Trafford to watch a game, almost shed tears when he looked at the extremely shabby chairman's box at his home stadium.

Compared to Manchester United, which can bring in huge revenue of more than five million pounds per home game, a sold-out Birmingham game can bring in revenue of at most one million pounds, and this is only the case for Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea.

It will only appear if a wealthy team comes to visit.

With an average price of over 50 pounds, Manchester United is the most expensive ticket in the Premier League and even the most expensive in the world. However, Birmingham dare not significantly increase the ticket price because it may lose a large number of spectators.

Generally speaking, for mid- and lower-tier teams in the Premier League like Birmingham, the average ticket price is around 20 pounds, and the most expensive ticket price does not exceed 300 pounds. That is, the average price is only for games against giants like Manchester United.

It may reach 30 pounds, and there will be a rush for tickets.

In comparison, the average price of Manchester United is more than 50 pounds, and some tickets with the best views cost more than 1,000 pounds. There is a huge difference between the two.

It is this huge gap that makes the gap between wealthy clubs and ordinary clubs continue to widen. Over decades or hundreds of years, this generation gap has reached an irreparable level.

Yang Jiacheng, who once went to Old Trafford to watch a game, almost shed tears when he looked at the extremely shabby chairman's box at his home stadium.

Compared to Manchester United, which can bring in huge revenue of more than five million pounds per home game, a sold-out Birmingham game can bring in revenue of at most one million pounds, and this is only the case for Manchester United, Arsenal, and Chelsea.

It will only appear if a wealthy team comes to visit.

With an average price of over 50 pounds, Manchester United is the most expensive ticket in the Premier League and even the most expensive in the world. However, Birmingham dare not significantly increase the ticket price because it may lose a large number of spectators.